Roads. An accident with a downed poll causing route 1 and 9 tonnelle avenue to be shut down. Last week shut down for flooding, today an accident. Over to the fdr drive, shut down with road work between 96th street and 61s in both directions. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Thank you very much. Now breaking news in brooklyn. Two People Killed in a crash overnight. Police say the driver who caused the crash it happened at the intersection of fulton and chestnut streets. Thats where we find jen maxfield. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Police are still here at the scene at the intersection of fulton and chestnut street. This is where two men crossing the street were struck and killed earlier today. Ill step out of the way here and show you that there are two cars up on the sidewalk that are badly damaged. Thats because police say that a very high rate of speed eastbound here, down fulton street. He lost control of the car hitting two pedestrians and those two parked cars.
Reporter it may sound crazy, but its true. A 53yearold man out walking his German Shepherd wednesday night was attacked. The dog bites on both of the mans arms required 30 stitches. A large brown dog attacked him. Reporter just out of nowhere . Just out of nowhere. Reporter the man did not want to go on camera. Manchester police have alerted his coyote. When youre outdoors, keep dogs on a short leash, especially at night. If youre walking at night or in the woods, bring noise makers. Whistles or horns can scare a coyote away. It is kind of scary. Reporter a neighbor says hes been keeping his boxer close to home ever since he heard howling at night. Even his mom didnt believe him. Theres howling. No, theres not. Theres howling. Reporter police here in manchester think he may have already left the area. Im jen maxfield. Three tried to enter new york to help save a young girl from drugs back in june. When the presiding judge heard erin failed to make prior court appearances, he kept decis
Have a wonderful working relationship with chief oneil. It is interesting to see if john miller stays on, spokesman steve davis. This will all play itself out we are told over the next month. The Police Commissioner staying put through mid september but wanted to go out as continues down every year he has been in office. He felt with the private sector offer along with what along with building up the Counter Terror division, adding over 2,000 Police Officers he felt now was the right time. As we talk about that here days after bratton told the New York Times that he would be staying after 2017. The timing is interesting, this announcement coming days after that came out. We have heard he has received several private sector offers in him but never got confirmation he was going to take the offer. The conversations were ongoing between him and the mayor and apparently outside in the private world that the company wanted him to start sooner than later and was putting pressure on the commis
Fairfield county into sullivan, ulster and duchess counties. Were tracking rain and thunderstorms as you head out the door. You still need the umbrellas one more day. Its not raining in the city. 71 degrees in central park. Winds out of east at 6 miles per hour. We have mostly cloudy skies. That will change throughout the day. Lots of clouds to start. It gets brighter as the day goes on. After lunchtime, sunshine finally starts to take over again. Below average though. Only in the upper 70s to low the humidity a little bit lower than yesterday. Not as muggy as it was on monday. Well take a look at the tenday forecast and big changes coming up. Lauren scala has your commute. Lets talk about some construction delays were seeing out there. Heres the bqe, this is what it looks like by manhattan avenue. Eastbound, very slow going. The left lane is shut down further north of here. All the way to the long island expressway. Thruway, shut down southbound. Heres what it looks like by exit 18a.
Much behind it, however eventually humidity will be dropping. Closer to the city, once again right around 80. 79 in the park, still 80 at islip, still fairly humid. What we do have is a bit of a breeze, so its taking away some of the feel of the mugginess. Coming up leftover light showers northwest new jersey early this morning, this will press on through shortly and then eventually drier air toward the north and west will win out for at least tomorrow. So again look for the clouds giving way to sunshine. A bit breezy. Around 85. Forecasting a high in the upper 80s, but no more thunderstorms to worry about for a little while. Good morning. Lets talk about some of the road work taking place in new jersey right now overnight. Route 17 is shut down northbound today, normally weve been seeing a southbound closure with construction, so that is between century road and midland avenue. Paramus road. And turnpike shut down for quite a stretch. More weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. New